Jason Ipswitch

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Long time lurker, but felt I had to respond to this one. (Full disclaimer - I generally like the posts of CD / MO or 'whatever the appropriate handle is', though I don't puzzle through all of them. They remind...

I was wondering if anyone would mention the "mewling quim" line from Avengers. It was the first thing I thought of as Charlie started to mention alternatives to the more mundane obscenities. I remember hearing it in the theater and...

Do you think that Hillary's "blue wall" crumbled in part because of an out-migration of Democrat-leaning voters from those states to other states where their votes wouldn't affect the Electoral College outcome, rather than because they voted Trump this time in defiance of globalization?...

To avoid crippling fees, you need to maintain a certain minimum balance. When I arrived in Australia about 2000 that was the case. But there was a wave of change and these days fee-free accounts are the norm. To the point where I have accounts with three different banks purely because that's easier than grinding through the process to close the accounts. There's no need for those fees any more, at least with the more internet-enabled banks. An accurate fee would be a few cents a year which would mostly over the reporting costs (in other words the exact cost...

One thing in Australia is that post offices are often agencies now, a corner of the chemist or part of the newsagency. But they all offer a whole heap of services, to the point where it's common for staff to look up the thing on their computer and say "right, I print this form, you fill it out, I stamp it then scan it into the computer, you pay $10.25, and I give you a receipt". They literally have never seen that form before in 99% of cases. We have had to do this several times to get a mortgage...